Theatre & Dance ETDs

Publication Date

Spring 4-14-2018

Abstract

In this essay, I review my development as a playwright in the MFA Dramatic Writing program and examine the shifting, overlapping goals of playwright-as-educator and playwright-as-entertainer. In Part One, I position my academic exploration of trauma in relation to ethics in journalism, embodied knowledge, and intersectional feminism and outline my creative experiments in staging trauma through the process of witnessing, retelling, and abstraction. In Part Two, I detail the artistic and personal roots of my dissertation play, The Great Maverick Adventure of 2007, and the structural and dramaturgical tools I employed to rebuild a sense of play and theatricality in my work.

Degree Name

Dramatic Writing

Level of Degree

Masters

Department Name

Theatre & Dance

First Committee Member (Chair)

Gregory S. Moss

Second Committee Member

Amanda Hamp

Third Committee Member

Dominika Laster

Fourth Committee Member

Leonard Madrid

Language

English

Keywords

theatre, trauma studies, verbatim theatre, sports plays

Document Type

Dissertation

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